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mystery of wickedness
b. [In allusion to 2 Thessalonians 2:7, post-classical Latin mysterium iniquitatis (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek τὸ μυστήριον τῆς ἀνομίας.] mystery of iniquity n. the mystery of the existence of evil and the Devil, whose origin it is supposed reason alone can not explain; (in extended use) any instance of extreme and inexplicable evil or suffering. Formerly also †mystery of wickedness.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil thing > [noun] > and secret
mystery of iniquityc1384
society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > iniquity > secret or inexplicable
mystery of wickednessc1384
mystery of iniquity1545
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) 2 Thess. ii. 7 Forwhi the mysterie, or priuyte, of wickidnesse worchith now [1526 Tyndale the mistery off iniquytie].
c1400 Bk. to Mother (Bodl.) 182 For Anticrist worcheþ now misterie of wickednes to hem þat parshen.
1545 J. Bale (title) A mysterye of inyqyte contayned within the heretycall Genealogye of Ponce Pantolabus.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 571 If I might, with the Readers patience, I would adde somewhat of their Mysterie of iniquitie, and the mysticall sense of this iniquitie.
1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 24 If God had not given them over to thraldome under that mystery of iniquity, of sinfull man aspiring into the place of God.
1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church of Scotl. (1830) IV. 286 This hellish mystery of antichristian iniquity and arbitrary tyranny.
1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 38 The Whole of this Mystery of Iniquity is called the Reason of State.
1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. vii. 170 We will search to the bottom this mystery of iniquity.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 52 This mystery of iniquity [sc. a plot against William III] has..been gradually unveiling.
1884 Pall Mall Gaz. 28 Aug. 3/2 The great city [of London] is full of many mysteries—not a few of them..mysteries of iniquity.
1922 G. M. Trevelyan Brit. Hist. 19th Cent. xii. 199 He [sc. Sir Robert Peel] at once cleared out the mystery of iniquity at the Home Office.
1980 J. Saward Perfect Fools viii. 128 Surin faced the mystery of iniquity in all its horrific power.
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